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Brain on Sports
by Sports Illustrated/Panoply
Sports Illustrated executive editor Jon Wertheim and Tufts University psychology professor Sam Sommers analyze the the hidden side of games, athletes, fans, owners, officials and more with special guests and interviews.
Episodes
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UFC's Luke Rockhold on the mental side of fighting
On this week’s episode, Jon Wertheim talks with middleweight fighter Luke Rockhold ahead of his middleweight championship rematch against Chris Weidman at UFC 199 on June 4. Calling in from Las Vegas, Rockhold (15-2 MMA, 5-1 UFC) talks about his preparation, mentally and physically, for his fight...
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Fandom and self-identification
This week’s episode features a conversation about how fans self-identify with Ed Hirt, a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Indiana University. Hirt has studied, among other things, how wins and losses affect fans’ perception of their own abilities and why the attachment to a sports...
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John Amaechi’s post-NBA career
Former NBA player John Amaechi discusses his life after basketball as an organizational consultant and performance coach, how his career might have gone differently with the lessons he’s taken from his post-NBA graduate studies in psychology and what impresses him most about the Warriors’ team...
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Why do we root for underdogs?
March Madness has descended upon the sports world once again, and from casual fans to diehard bracket-trackers, everyone is on high alert for the next team from a little-known school to take the NCAA tournament by storm. But why are we so predisposed to pulling for the little guy? On this week’s...
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How teams use sleep science
Scott Kutcher, a clinical professor of psychiatry and behavior sciences at the Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine, joins the show this week to talk about the scientific world of sleep and what other teams can learn from the Yankees’ decision to start their spring training workouts...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Sports Illustrated executive editor Jon Wertheim and Tufts University psychology professor Sam Sommers analyze the the hidden side of games, athletes, fans, owners, officials and more with special guests and interviews.
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Sports Illustrated/Panoply
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Sports Illustrated executive editor Jon Wertheim and Tufts University psychology professor Sam Sommers analyze the the hidden side of games, athletes, fans, owners, officials and more with special guests and interviews.
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